AECP Level 2 - Creative Watercolor Media

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 Today, I'm sharing a card I made for the Creative watercolor media class as part of the Altenew AECP.

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I was in love with this Betterpress plate from Spellbinders when it was first released, and I'm still loving it!

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Case me a Christmas Card with Hannelie Bester

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2022 - a Christmas Card blog series!

For more background info on the who, what, where, when, how and why of this series, please visit my first post for this year HERE!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Hannelie Bester. I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE.

 All of the products I used are linked below :) 

And I made a video!

 

This is the card I Cased: 

Hannelie also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE

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Case me a Christmas Card with Cecilia Hsieh

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2022 - a Christmas Card blog series!

For more background info on the who, what, where, when, how and why of this series, please visit my first post for this year HERE!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Cecilia Hsieh. I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE.

 All of the products I used are linked below :) 

This is the card I Cased: 

Cecilia also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE

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Rambling roses for Paper Rose

 Today, I'm sharing a card using a floral die from Paper Rose Studios. 

I cut the "Rambling Rose Border metal die" from some white cardstock twice, and used a blending brush to add Distress Oxide inks to the flowers and leaves. I adhered the coloured die cuts to a top folding white card base, and then stamped the sentiment from "All the Thanks Mini Clear Stamp" in black ink.

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Tea time mouse

 I recently bought a cutie pie stamp set from Colorado Craft Company with images by Anita Jeram. I decided to make a super CAS card.

 

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New challenge at Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero

 There's a new challenge at Stay Crafty with A Blog Named Hero starting today. The theme is "Another Year Older" - we'd like to see all of your birthday card ideas! Any theme, any colour scheme, any technique, as long as it's a birthday card.

I did some watercolouring with Distress inks, before stamping with the Togetherness Flower Bouquet stamp. I then cut the "happy" die from the Happy Thanks" Stamp & Cut set, and stacked up the word die to create the eclipse effect. I added some Wink of Stella on the word, and stamped the word "Birthday" below the die.

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Online Card Class homework

 Catching up on Online Card Class homework - this was from a Kristina Werner video on Faux Letterpress.

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Online Card Class day 2

 Online card class, day 2 - I tried Jessica Frost Ballas' technique, but had a massive fail (I didn't have the right type of layering die), so here's what I made from Cathy Zielske's lesson.

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Rainbow birthday

 Today, I'm sharing a card I made using some products I recently got from Simon Says Stamp.

 

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Case me a Christmas Card with Ceal Pritchett

Welcome to Case me a Christmas Card for 2021 - a Christmas Card blog series! 

From October to December, I will link to a series of guest cardmakers on my blog. I will CASE one of their cards, and they will CASE one of mine! CASE stands for either Copy And Share Everything, or Copy And Selectively Edit. It's about getting inspiration from cardmaking friends, but making a new card that is our own. And, of course, the card we each make has to be a Christmas card!

Background

In November 2016, I started this a little series on my blog. It started with me wanting to challenge myself to step outside my comfort zone with my Christmas cardmaking, so I asked friends to challenge me to do something different. 2016 challenges included using embroidery thread on a card, making a food themed card, making a geeky Christmas card (it had the Tardis on it) and making a dinosaur themed card. 

In 2017, I asked some of my cardmaking friends to join me with these challenges. Then, in 2020, I changed things up a bit by asking each of my guests to CASE one of my cards and I would CASE one of theirs. Ardyth Percy Robb made a video in 2020 (linked here) of a 5 step process that I use all the time when I am making a CASE of anybody's card, so I encourage you to check out her video!

Today's guest

Today, my guest is Ceal Pritchett. I have CASEd one of her cards that you can check out HERE.

 All of the products I used are linked below :) 

 

This is the card I Cased:

 

And I made a video! 

Ceal also Cased one of my cards - you can find it HERE

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Online Card Class Day 5

Day 5 at the current Online Card Class is all about embossing with stencils. I started with a piece of white cardstock that I covered with Paper Glitz sparkle, and then I embossed with the Coloring Book stencil from Picket Fence Studios.

I then added a die cut sentiment from Paper Rose, and a stamped and white embossed sentiment from Hero Arts.

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Stamptember Blog Party at Simon Says Stamp!

 Today, I'm taking part in a blog party over at Simon Says Stamp to celebrate Stamptember! The lovely people at Simon Says Stamp sent me this lovely die, which I teamed up with an background stamp and a small sentiment set.

And Simon Says Stamp is offering anyone who has visited my blog today a free gift! Click on the graphic below and don't forget to use the code!

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Hello Beautiful release from Simon Says Stamp

 There's a new release today from Simon Says Stamp! The release is called "Hello Beautiful", and the lovely people at Simon sent me the new set called "Baby Gender Reveal". I made these two cards using it:

 

I paired the new set up with the Waves stencil (from an earlier Simon Says Stamp release) and Distress Oxide inks and Copic markers.

 

 I used Distress Oxides on this card, too, but I used the ink smooshing technique instead of ink blending.

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